Probably been posted already and likely to be lost in User Sub but I wanted to share anyway. Happy St. Patrick's day.

Mar 17, 2014 9:30 PM

Probably been posted already and likely to be lost in User Sub but I wanted to share anyway. Happy St. Patrick's day.

We should have stayed Pagan and the English would have got their arses kicked earlier, christianity softened us

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There's a bit more to the guy than that. (he was also a slave shepherd for some time)

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And by snakes, they mean pagans.

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Snakes = Pagan. He kicked out the entire native religion + the people who refused to reject it. So... yea...

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Catholicism, yo

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or whatever it was

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I got a book about Irish myths by some Irishmen I often drove as a taxi driver; that's how I learned Cu Chulainn means Hound of the Smith.

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and also Hound of Ulster

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He took the name after he accidentally killed the hound. My grandfather gave me a similar book when I was a kid.

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